Six-Step Resume Writing
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Step One: Targeting Your Career and Audience
You must have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish in your professional
life in order to maximize the impact of your resume for your targeted audience—the
hiring manager or graduate school admissions director.
Before you begin, ask yourself these questions. Are you:
1. Making a lateral move?
2. Seeking a promotion?
3. Career transitioning?
4. Pursuing admission into a graduate program?*
For numbers 1-3 above, the most effective way to begin targeting your resume
is to search openings that appeal to you in internal company postings, newspaper
classifieds or at job banks, such as the top
job banks linked below.
After answering the questions above, you can highlight the qualifications you
will need to be considered and the duties you would be expected to assume.
Every match in terms of qualifications and experience will serve as keywords**
in your resume, as well as provide focus so that the resume can be tailored
for your targeted audience.
The more closely the content of your resume matches the content of job postings,
the more likely you will be asked to interview.
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* Resumes provided for graduate school admission showcase your skills, professional
experience, accomplishments, and academic history in much the same way as "job" resumes. The
difference is that an admissions resume will focus on what transitions well
to the classroom, not necessarily to the workplace.
** Keywords include industry-specific jargon or acronyms. Companies that scan
resumes into computers and then search them electronically, require a set number
of hits on keywords before the hiring manager will personally review
the applicant's resume. It is always wise to incorporate as many relevant keywords
as possible into your resume.
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